Jonathan Chait: “Of their heedless rush to enact a deficit-exploding tax invoice so huge that they barely perceive it, Senate Republicans bring to mind a scene in The Sopranos. A bunch of younger aspiring gangsters decides to stay up a Mafia card sport in hopes of gaining the mobsters’ respect and being introduced into the crew. On the final second, the blokes briefly rethink, earlier than considered one of them provides the decisive argument in favor of continuing: ‘Let’s do it earlier than the crank wears off.’ After that, issues go as you would possibly anticipate.”
“Just like the Mafia wannabes, congressional Republicans have talked themselves right into a plan so incomprehensibly reckless that to explain it’s to query its authors’ sanity. As of immediately’s 50–50 Senate vote, with Vice President J. D. Vance breaking the tie, the Home and Senate have handed their very own variations of the invoice. The ultimate particulars nonetheless should be negotiated, however the foundational parts are clear sufficient. Congress is about to impose immense hurt on tens of hundreds of thousands of Individuals—taking away their medical health insurance, decreasing welfare advantages, elevating power prices, and extra—with the intention to profit a handful of different Individuals who least want the assistance. The invoice nearly appears designed to generate a political backlash.”
“On condition that President Donald Trump and the GOP, not like the morons in The Sopranos, usually are not collectively underneath the affect of crystal meth, the query naturally arises: Why are they doing this?”
